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@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ in favor of proper C strings. C strings may be a weak and leaky
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abstraction, but this is one of the rare cases in which they are
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an obvious improvement over what they're displacing...
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The code falls a short of being fully modern C in the following
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The code falls short of being fully modern C in the following
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ways:
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* We have not attempted to translate the old code to pointer-based
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and the choice to refrain will make forward translation into future
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languages easier.
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* There are some gotos left that resist restructuring; all of these
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* There are a few gotos left that resist restructuring; all of these
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are in the principal command interpreter function implementing its
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state machine. One other left in the player-movement code, a two-level
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loop breakout, is not reducible even in principle.
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state machine.
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* Linked lists (for objects at a location) are implemented using an array
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of link indices. This is a surviving FORTRANism that is quite unlike
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compromise forward-portability to other languages.
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* The code still has an unfortunately high density of magic numbers - in
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particular, numeric object and room IDs.
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particular, numeric object and room IDs. There are plans to fix this.
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* Much of the code still uses FORTRAN-style uppercase names.
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* The code is still mostly typeless, slinging around machine longs
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like a FORTRAN or BCPL program. Some (incomplete) effort has been made
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